Édouard Ignacz Weiczorkiewicz[ was a French–Canadianprofessional wrestler better known by his ring nameÉdouard Carpentier. In a career that spanned from the 1950s into the 1970s, he garnered several world championships died from a heart attack he was , 84.

Career

An early proponent of “scientific” wrestling, Carpentier was a crowd favorite who delighted fans with acrobatic leaps from the turnbuckles and a variety of other aerial maneuvers such as the rope-aided twisting headscissors. He was one of the first wrestlers to regularly use such maneuvers.[1] He was always a fan favorite in his bouts and was matched against numerous villains, perhaps the most well known of whom was the legendary Killer Kowalski.http://www.youtube.com/v/4dF8izp8-CA?fs=1&hl=en_US
The highpoint of his career was his NWA World Heavyweight Championship reign from 1956 to 1957.[1] He won the title in a disputed contest against Lou Thesz on June 14, 1957.[1] Some NWA territories and officials recognized the disputed win as a legitimate title change, while others did not.[1] This led to the split of the NWA and led to the creation of the American Wrestling Association and other organizations, all with their own world titles.[1] He was later recognized as the first holder of the AWA’s Omaha version of the World Heavyweight Championship.[1] He eventually dropped the belt to Verne Gagne.[1]
Carpentier headlined Madison Square Garden three times in 1962 with tag team partner Bobo Brazil. They had two main events against Buddy Rogers & Handsome Johnny Barend; another against Rogers & Killer Kowalski. He also teamed numerous times with Antonino Rocca, as well as with Argentine Apollo. In solo matches at the Garden, he defeated Giant Baba, Skull Murphy, Magnificent Maurice, and Hans Mortier.
After his retirement, Carpentier operated a school for teaching professional wrestling skills.[1] He also operated in the early 1980s as a babyface colour commentator, alongside heel play-by-play host Guy Hauray, for the Montreal-based Grand Prix Wrestling, and then, together for the World Wrestling Federation, when the WWF bought the Montreal territory in 1985. They hosted the French edition of the WWF television show Superstars, sold to French-speaking countries.[1] He was replaced by former French-Canadian wrestler Raymond Rougeau in 1992.

Death

On October 30, 2010, Carpentier died of a heart attack at his home in Montreal. He had also suffered a heart attack in 2000. Carpentier had been in poor health for many years, battered from his acrobatic, high-flying style. [4]

1Carpentier was awarded the title by disqualification when Thesz could not continue the match due to a back injury. For 71 days, the NWA recognized the title as being in dispute between Carpentier and Thesz.
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Life

Mulisch was born in Haarlem and lived in Amsterdam from 1958, following the death of his father in 1957, until the end of his own life. Mulisch’s father was from Austria-Hungary and emigrated to the Netherlands after the First World War.[1] During the German occupation in World War II his father worked for a German bank, which also dealt with confiscated Jewish assets.[1] His mother, Alice Schwarz, was Jewish. Mulisch and his mother escaped transportation to a concentration camp thanks to Mulisch’s father’s collaboration with the Nazis, however his maternal grandmother died in a gas chamber.[1] Mulisch was mostly raised by his parents’ housemaid, Frieda Falk.[1] Mulisch said of himself, he did not just write about World War II, he was WWII.[1]http://www.youtube.com/v/5N9lGsEBSsw?fs=1&hl=en_US

Death

Mulisch died in 2010. His death occurred at his Amsterdam home and his family were with him at the time.[2] His publisher released a statement confirming the news.[1] Not long before his death Mulisch had made television appearances and was well dressed when dealing with visitors.[1] Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte described this as “a loss for Dutch literature and the Netherlands”.[4]
Culture minister Halbe Zijlstra bemoaned the demise of the “Big Three” as Gerard Reve and Willem Frederik Hermans had already died.[4] Marlise Simons of The New York Times said his “gift for writing with clarity about moral and philosophical themes made him an enormously influential figure in the Netherlands and earned him recognition abroad”.[1]The L Magazine‘s Mark Ashe quoted the American editions of his novels by referring to him as “Holland’s Greatest Author” and “Holland’s most important postwar writer”.[5]

Mulisch gained international recognition with the film The Assault (1986), which was based on his book The Assault (1982). It received an Oscar and a Golden Globe for best foreign movie and has been translated into more than twenty languages.
His novel The Discovery of Heaven (1992) is considered his masterpiece, it was voted “the best Dutch-language book ever” by Dutch readers in a 2007 newspaper poll.[1] “It is the book that shaped our generation; it made us love, even obsess, with reading,” said Peter-Paul Spanjaard, 32, a lawyer in Amsterdam at the time of Mulisch’s death.[1] It was filmed in 2001 as The Discovery of Heaven by Jeroen Krabbé, starring Stephen Fry.
Among the many awards he received for individual works and his total body of work, the most important is the Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren (Prize of Dutch Literature, a lifetime achievement award) in 1995.[6]

A frequent theme in his work is the Second World War. His father had worked for the Germans during the war and went to prison for three years afterwards. As the war spanned most of Mulisch’s formative phase, it had a defining influence on his life and work. In 1963, he wrote a non-fiction work about the Eichmann case: Criminal Case 40/61. Major works set against the backdrop of the Second World War are De Aanslag (The Assault), Het stenen bruidsbed, and Siegfried, the latter an attempt to examine why so many Germans responded to Hitler’s charisma[7]
Mulisch often incorporated ancient legends or myths in his writings, drawing on Greek mythology (e.g. in De Elementen), Jewish mysticism (in De ontdekking van de Hemel and De Procedure), well known urban legends and politics (Mulisch was politically left-wing, once signing a book “dedicated in admiration” to Fidel Castro).[2] Mulisch’s works are widely read.
In 1984 he delivered the Huizinga Lecture in Leiden, The Netherlands, under the title: Het Ene (the unifying principle).[citation needed]

Nozawa’s earliest anime voice acting credits come from 1963, when he provided voices for Astro Boy and Ookami Shonen Ken. In the 1960’s, he also provided voices for Goku no Daiboken, Kyojin no Hoshi, Dororo, and Under Sea Marine Boy. In the 1970’s, Nozawa provided voice for Osamu Tezuka’s Cleopatra film, Gatchaman, Animation Kikou Marco Polo no Boken, The Rose of Versailles, and the film Undersea Super Train: Marine Express.

While Nozawa could still be heard in anime in the 1990’s, the overall amount of anime voice work he did in that decade is noticeably less than it had been in the 1980’s. During this decade, his voice could be heard in the film Crayon Shin-chan: Action Kamen vs. Haigure Mao, Lupin III: Voyage to Danger, Mobile Fighter G Gundam, Ijiwaru Baasan, the film Lupin III: Dead or Alive, the film Lupin III: The Secret of Twilight Gemini, the film Hermes – Winds of Love, the Sakura Wars OAV, Vampire Princess Miyu, Reign: The Conqueror, and Sakura Wars 2.

Nozawa’s anime voice acting work went back up in the 2000’s. During the decade, his voice could be heard in Alexander: The Movie, Ghost Stories, One Piece: The Movie, Sakura Wars, Hellsing, Salaryman Kintaro, Asobotto Senki Goku, Demon Lord Dante, Hanada Shonen-shi, Lupin III: Return of Pycal, Macross Zero, Pokemon Advance, Space Pirate Captain Herlock The Endless Odyssey, The Galaxy Railways, Black Jack, Monster, Ragnarok The Animation, the film Black Jack: The Two Doctors of Darkness, Last Order Final Fantasy VII, Naruto the Movie: Legend of the Stone of Gelel, Shinshaku Sengoku Eiyuu Densetsu Sanada Jyuu Yuushi The Animation, Kekkaishi, Claymore, Devil May Cry, MapleStory, Mokke, Cobra the Animation: The Psychogun, Real Drive, To Love-Ru, Cobra the Animation: Time Drive, and Soten Koro.

In addition to anime, Nozawa has provided voices for Japanese dub versions of English films and television series. He has provided voices for C3P0 in the original Star Wars trilogy, a character in The Man from U.N.K.L.E., Doc and Grunge in the live-action Fraggle Rock series, a character in The Beverly Hillbillies, a scientist Skeksis in The Dark Crystal, and for John McClane in the various Die Hard films. Nozawa has also provided voices in the Japanese video games for Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII, Dirge of Cereberus-Final Fantasy VII, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, and Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories.

Sadly, Nachi Nozawa passed away from lung cancer on Saturday, October 30, 2010. He was 72 years old at the time of his death.

Biography

Van Hyning was born on January 9, 1936 in Umatilla, Florida.[1] He earned his undergraduate degree and a master’s from the Juilliard School, which he attended on a scholarship, studying percussion under the instruction of Morris Goldenberg and Saul Goodman.[2] He spent two years with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.[2]
Having been hired by the New York City Opera in 1966, he became the orchestra’s principal percussionist, serving for 40 years before he was forced to retire from the company in 2006 due to Parkinson’s disease. During his career he amassed a collection of rare and unusual percussion instruments, including a unique set of 13 gongs constructed by the Tronci family specifically for Puccini.[1] Van Hyning had been searching for a proper set of gongs and obtained the original set from the Stivanello Costume Company, which had acquired the gongs as the result of winning a bet.[1] In 1987 he bought the gongs for his collection, paying thousands of dollars for the set, which he described as having “colorful, intense, centered and perfumed” sound qualities.[1] He founded Van Percussion as a company that would rent out his rare and unusual instruments to orchestras around the world.[2]

Death
A resident of Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, Van Hyning died at the age of 74 on October 30, 2010, at his home there due to a heart attack. He was survived by his wife, Marlene Piturro, as well as by a daughter and a son.[1]

Crawley was born in 1926 in Bow in London, and moved with his parents to Southend-on-Sea when he was four years old, later moving to Leigh-on-Sea. He was educated at Westcliff High School for Boys, and during World War II he was evacuated to Derbyshire where he was placed with a miner and his family. Already skilled at the piano, Crawley convinced his hosts to purchase a piano to allow him to continue practising.[2] As a child he learned photography from his father.[1] He showed early talent at the piano, and pursued a performance career. He also studied French and German at Selwyn College at the University of Cambridge. Ill health forced him to abandon both his plans to become a professional musician and his studies.[3]

Crawley enjoyed a long career with BJP, joining in the 1960s as a contributor. He became the technical editor, and was promoted to editor in 1967, a position he held for 21 years. Following the sale of the magazine, he reassumed the position of technical editor, continuing until 2000, when he was in his seventies.[4] In 2000 he moved to the Amateur Photographer, where he was a contributor until shortly before his death.[2]

In the 1980s, he published a series of articles debunking the Cottingley Fairies hoax, a series of photographs that had been taken by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths starting in 1917 that purported to show the girls together with actual fairies and were used by Arthur Conan Doyle and others as evidence of the existence of supernatural entities.[5] While there were longstanding claims that the photographs were hoaxes, Crawley undertook “a scientific and analytical approach” to analyzing the images starting in the 1970s. After studying the capabilities of some of the cameras that had been used to take the photos, Crawley concluded that they would have been unable to capture images as sharp as the ones in the purported unaltered photographs. In a series of articles published in the British Journal of Photography in the early 1980s, Crawley concluded that the images had been manipulated and that the fairies were a hoax. The cousins would later admit that one of the girls had copied images of fairies from a book onto cardboard cutouts that were then photographed. Frances insisted that the final photo in the series was genuine, though Elsie acknowledged that they were all fakes.[1]

Death
Crawley died at the age of 83 on 29 October 2010 at his home in Westcliff-on-Sea. He was survived by his wife, Carolyn, as well as by a son.[1]

George Hickenlooper Director , who won an Emmy Award for the documentary “Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse,” has died. He was 47.

(May 25, 1963 – October 29, 2010)

Hickenlooper was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended high school at St. Louis University High, where he was part of a group of teenage filmmakers he informally called the “Splicers”.[1]After graduating from Yale University with a B.A. in History and Film Studies in 1986, Hickenlooper interned for the producer Roger Corman, and launched his directing career with Art, Acting, and the Suicide Chair: Dennis Hopper in 1988.http://www.youtube.com/v/M_plDDO8YWI?fs=1&hl=en_US
His first feature-length documentary, Hearts of Darkness, explored the making of Apocalypse Now. It won several awards, including the National Board of Review award for “Best Documentary”, an American Cinema Editors award for “Best Edited Documentary”, two Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awards for “Outstanding Individual Achievement – Informational Programming – Directing” and “Outstanding Individual Achievement – Informational Programming – Picture Editing”, and the International Documentary Association award. Hickenlooper himself won an Emmy for direction.
George Hickenlooper’s cousin, John Hickenlooper, who is the mayor of Denver, Colorado and Governor-elect of Colorado, made a cameo appearance as a fictional senator in Hickenlooper’s 2010 film Casino Jack.[2]http://www.youtube.com/v/Qxn7negXwdk?fs=1&hl=en_US
In addition to his films, Hickenlooper authored a 1991 book, Reel Conversations.
Hickenlooper died in his sleep on October 29, 2010.[3][4] Despite initial reports that Hickenlooper had suffered a heart attack, the coroner ruled that his death was the result of accidental painkiller overdose, combining oxymorphone with alcohol. Sleep apnea and a “moderately enlarged heart” were contributing factors.[5] He is survived by his wife Suzanne, son Charles, a younger brother, and his mother and father.[3]

Bärbel Mohr was a German author. Since 1998 she published 20 German books (self-help books, children books, stories) – including the best-selling Bestellungen beim Universum (The Cosmic Ordering Service), translated into 14 languages so far and a German audio edition – which combined have more than 1.5 million copies in print ost her battle with cancer, she was 46.. The foundation for Cosmic Ordering shows a great similarity to the 1937 work of Napoleon Hill, and later to the ideas expressed by Reverend Ike, Kenneth Copeland, Bob Tilton and Jim Bakker.

Career

In 1995 she wrote The Cosmic Ordering Service for a small group of people and distributed it as a Xerox copy. Since then, she has become a household name in Germany.In 2006, Noel Edmonds (UK TV-presenter) credited her book with turning his career around. Bärbel regularly gave lectures and workshops on joyful living and how to realise your dreams.

Personal life

With her family (husband and twins) she lived close to Munich in the country in Germany.

Personal life

Early life

Navarro was born June 7, 1967 in Santa Monica, California, to James Raul Navarro and Constance Colleen Hopkins. Navarro’s paternal grandfather was an illegal Mexicanimmigrant. His mother Constance worked as a model, appearing on the television show Let’s Make a Deal. Navarro was the only person in his paternal family who did not speak Spanish. This was a result of James and Constance’s divorce when Navarro was 7, and he spent the majority of his time with his mother. He attended Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, CA. He later transferred to University High School in Los Angeles, CA.Constance Navarro was murdered by her boyfriend eight years after the divorce. Her killer was arrested in 1991, thanks to a viewer tip after Navarro appeared on the television series, America’s Most Wanted. After his mother’s death, he moved in with his father.

Relationships

Navarro has been married and divorced three times. He married his first wife, make-up artist Tania Goddard, in a pagan ceremony in 1990 and his second wife, Rhian Gittins, in a civil ceremony on October 15, 1994. Navarro married model and actress Carmen Electra, on November 22, 2003. On July 17, 2006, Navarro and Electra announced their split to Star Magazine. Navarro posted a message on his blog the following morning saying “I just want to say thanks for all of your love and support. I’m sure that you can understand that I wish to keep all personal matters private.” Electra filed for divorce on August 8, 2006.
Dave Navarro’s cousin is Dan Navarro who is best known for being half of the folk rock duo Lowen and Navarro.

Professional career

Early career

On his Instructional Guitar DVD Navarro tells how he started playing guitar at the age of 7 after hearing a Jimi Hendrix song at a skate park.

1986-1993

Navarro joined the band Jane’s Addiction in 1986 as the lead guitarist after he was recommended to vocalist Perry Farrell by drummer Perkins. The band also featured Navarro’s childhood friend Eric Avery on bass. The band became successful and was popular in the alternative-rock music scene. Personal tensions, however, led to their breakup in 1991. The Lollapalooza festival was created by Farrell as a farewell tour for Jane’s Addiction.

After the departure of Guns N’ Roses‘ original rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin in August 1991, Navarro was the first choice of lead singer Axl Rose to replace Stradlin. However, despite four attempts to have him come in and play with Slash, he never showed up. However, he later went on to play on the 1999 Guns N’ Roses song “Oh My God“http://www.youtube.com/v/JtE9irhpDUk?fs=1&hl=en_US, which was featured on the End of Days soundtrack. In 1993, Navarro formed Deconstructionwith Avery on vocals and bass and Michael Murphy on drums, and the band put out one self-titled album in 1994. Rick Rubin was involved in the production and Gibby Haynes makes a guest appearance. They did not tour due to Avery’s exhaustion after Jane’s Addiction.

1993-1998

Navarro joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers in September 1993. His first performance with the band was at Woodstock ’94. The only album in which Navarro played with the Red Hot Chili Peppers – One Hot Minute – was released in 1995. The album was a commercial success and fan favorite but received mixed reviews despite producing three hit singles. After two years of touring on and off, and his subsequent heroin relapse, Navarro was fired in 1998.

2001-2005

The album Trust No One marked his solo debut in the summer of 2001. In 2002, Jane’s Addiction reformed with bass player Chris Chaney, and started work on a new album. The band entered the studio with veteran rock producer, Bob Ezrin resulting in the album Strays and the Lollapalooza 2003 tour in support of the album.
Navarro began working with Camp Freddy during this time. In 2003 Dave and his fiancé, Carmen Electra, agreed to have their wedding preparations filmed for an MTV show entitled, Til Death Do Us Part. Camp Freddy played at the reception. The show was a great success and was released on DVD Fall 2005. Dave’s book, Don’t Try This At Home was released on October 5, 2004 with Regan books, and quickly became a Los Angeles Times bestseller.

Dave co-hosted 2 seasons of the Mark Burnett ROCKSTAR reality series INXS and SUPERNOVA with Brooke Burke. Dave and his band The Panic Channel released their album One in August of 2006. They toured with Rockstar Supernova in January/February of 2007. During this time Dave began his own internet radio station: SPREAD RADIO LIVE. He soon broadened his creativity with an internet talk show called: Dave Navarro’s SPREAD TV which was broadcast on Maniatv.com and is currently available for download on iTunes. The show highlighted a myriad of avant-garde subjects, artistry, and the human condition. Videos from the series are also available on Navarro’s YouTube channel.
In 2007 Navarro also teamed with Teravision to direct his first adult movie Broken starring Sasha Grey in the first of a planned series of celebrity-directed adult movies. This effort won “Best High End All-Sex Release” at the 2008 AVN Awards. Navarro has also made appearances in Season 1 and Season 2 of Z Rock with Brooklyn-based band ZO2 on IFC.Jane’s Addiction reunited once more in 2008 with all of the original members. The notoriously tumultuous band’s reunion was widely credited to NME magazine for choosing Jane’s Addiction as the recipient of their “Godlike Genius Award for Services to Music”. Soon after performing together for the first time in 17 years at the NME Award ceremony in Los Angeles, the band was contacted by Trent Reznor. Trent began working with Jane’s Addiction in his studio; they remixed and released two songs (Chip Away http://www.youtube.com/v/OIKz-_zP1yI?fs=1&hl=en_US & Whoreshttp://www.youtube.com/v/ejQL7rNepGQ?fs=1&hl=en_US ) online.(NINJA 2009 Tour Sampler This time together in the studio led directly to the pairing of Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction for a worldwide tour in 2009. The tour was cleverly branded the NIN/JA tour by fans.
During August 2009, Navarro toured southern California as part of the Billy Corgan-led band Spirits in the Sky.

2010-Present

Jane’s Addiction is currently in the process of writing an album planned for release in the Fall of 2011. The band played several intimate club shows in Los Angeles during 2010, including Bardot &The Roxy, marking the live debut of Duff McKagan on bass player.
Dave currently plays shows in the US with DJ Skribble, mixing guitar, hip hop beats and acapella. He also continues to play various shows with Camp Freddy.
Until early July 2010, Navarro had a weekly internet radio show called Dark Matter on http://www.Indie1031.com. The show aired every Wednesday night from 10pm-12am PST. It was a mix of Dave’s favorite music, witty banter between hosts, guests and callers, and the exploration of various topical issues. Archieved podcasts of the radio show can be found on Dave Navarro’s iTunes page.

Equipment of choice

During the first few years of Jane’s Addiction, Dave played a black Gibson Les Paul. Around the time of the band’s major label debut Nothing’s Shocking in 1988, he played Ibanez RG series guitars, including one custom painted with the album cover art. He is seen in the film “Gift” and the “Stop” video playing a blue Ibanez RG, which suggests it was used in the recording of the album Ritual de lo Habitual. During the 1990 Ritual tour, he primarily played a custom-shaped single cutaway gold Ibanez.
Dave began using PRS Guitars on the Lollapalooza tour in 1991. His signature model white PRS is now his number one stage guitar. He has several models in his regular stage and studio rig.
He used a Parker Fly Deluxe for the Chili Peppers days during the live versions of “My Friends”. He used it for its super clean tones and its piezoelectric pickup that sounds similar to an acoustic guitar. Dave also openly admits that “It’s one of the ugliest guitars I’ve ever seen”, as quoted from the Dave Navarro instructional DVD.
During this era, Dave went with a more treble based guitar in the Fender Stratocaster. He had several in his possession. All of them were a 3 single coil pattern but he also had a Modulus Stratocaster-like guitar made.

Dave has also been seen playing Kramer (Van Halen Signature) Guitars, Fender Telecasters, Takamine Acoustic 12 strings, and even a SquierHello Kitty Stratocaster given to him by Carmen.
Since late 2008, Dave’s been seen using either live and in studio a custom white Ibanez RG, with a humbucker/single/single pickup layout, gold hardware, and a PRS style tremolo.
Dave previously used a vintage Marshall JCM800, but now plays through 2 Marshall JCM900 amplifiers which are dubbed Tanjerine and Peach. For large gigs he will also use a Marshall Mode 4 for clean tones. In the studio he is also commonly known to use a Vox AC30 for cleans and a Bogner Uberschall for dirty tones.
With effects, Dave prefers BOSS. He uses a BOSS Octave Pedal, 2 BOSS DD3 Digital Delays, a BOSS Turbo distortion for extra volume during soloing, a Dunlop Cry Baby Wah Pedal and several others.

Brokensha then moved to Detroit, Michigan, USA, where he was hired by Berry Gordy of Motown Records as a percussionist, becoming one of the few white members of Motown’s Hitsville U.S.A. recording studio’s house band, The Funk Brothers. He was given the nickname “White Jack”, to distinguish him from Jack Ashford, an African American percussionist nicknamed “Black Jack”. Following further tours Down Under with Sammy Davis, Jr. and Stan Freberg, Brokensha founded his own music production company. He did a session with Art Mardigan in 1963, and after this became more active in disc jockeying and writing music for television. He recorded as a leader again in 1980 and continued to lead his own group well into the 1990s. The Australian Jazz Quartet also reunited for tours and recording in 1994.

Jack died in Sarasota, Florida, of complications from congestive heart failure at the age of 84.[2]